Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 2008/02

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Musical Orgasms
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:59:48 -0500

The 2nd mvt of the John Williams Clarinet Concerto has a climax that would
challenge any of those works. (slightly after 5'00) - buildup as well as a
nice long let down, must have been a female one.... ;)

I used to think of that area as Williams depicting the demise of a planet.

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com

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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:30:44 -0800
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Musical Orgasms
Message-ID: <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPGECEFKAA.dnleeson@-----.net>

I think that you have a damaged view of all of the previous discussions
about musical orgasms. We referred to moments in a musical composition
during which an orgasm was depicted in musical form; that is, some part of
the music was a depiction of a man or woman having an orgasm either during
the sex act or as a consequnce of some other event, sometimes abberant, such
as Salome with the head of John the baptist.

What you seem to be talking about is the emotion that arises while
performing a work that contains music that is exceptionally romantic or
sensual. The Brahms quintet, that you mentioned, is indeed such a work,
having several moments where it is difficult to restrain control over
yourself. But it does not have an orgasm in the music. I even had such an
emotion when playing a Sousa march with a superior band. I almost lost it,
but there was nothing orgasmic about it. And much of Mozart makes me
a-flutter, but the music is not trying to depict an orgasm, as does, say,
The Balero.

Just because your heart beats faster and you get all woozy in the head
doesn't mean that it is an orgasm.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

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